Katherine B. Winniford Park — Attraction in McKinney

Edit/update - TL;DR - overfish + snakes This was a great place to fish, recently it has been side-by-side fishing, not even a place to park; lots of pressure and fish either stopped biting or died/went-away. I went during night time and found 2 rattlesnakes (know nothing about snakes but 2 people saw the rattle) add-on some other water snakes (I guess) regularly found here and there.

Playground, ambient and so is still great, not downgrading the rating, just adding snakes for y'all to be safe.

Old. One of our favorite spots in McKinney, great playground for the kid, trail is good to run and walk, stream has that lovely countryside sound. Fishing is decent (small fish, sunfish/panfish), lots of turtles and ducks too. The only reason I did 4 stars is because there is no light in the playground and no restrooms, other than that,...

The gorge is a lovely piece of the NT stretching from the entrance further into the park in several sections. The most common way to view it properly is to join a boat tour which will give you up to three options to explore. We chose to tour two sections. The boat trip includes a commentary which was interesting and offered several photo opportunities along the way. It’s a two hour round trip and we felt this was adequate. To access the second section there was a walk involved. Only consisting of 400m smooth rock hopping, it will be fine for anyone mobile. They do allow those who struggle a shady place to wait if they need to. It’s an expensive trip for a family like every tourist activity, but you try to forget that as you glide through the water and watch the pretty landscape pass you by. I would...

Cute little park for a quick picnic. Not amazing. No restroom. Decent basketball court. Kinda altogether squished. One thing that was very weird: It was like Peter Pan's Neverland with kids running amok and no parents to be found. Seriously, maybe twenty kids of various ages wandering about with (from what I could tell) ZERO supervision. So parents, go...